3.16 update: In case they take the post down (again), click here; I pasted the content into a separate post. If you haven't read it yet, please do. It cleared my sinuses, and it might do the same for you.

3.23 update: OK, I stirred the pot a bit, but they're still at it, this time pulling in the co-op galleries. Like I said on FB, I must be doing something right. Links above.

Holy cow that Website is something else! "A provocative example of the postmodern pointillism on a Boolean operating system"? I'd be proud to be called a hillbilly by anyone capable of extruding such verbiage!

This organization is obviously insulted and overly defensive, not to mention childish. i hope you don't give this kind of thing a second thought. I'm out of NY and I really count on your blog to filter/curate what I'm missing.

Thanks, all, for sharing this fabulous award with me. Everyone over to the cee-ment pond for a buffay: fried squirrel, stewed possum, and maybe racoon burgers. For the vegetarians, well yer plum outta luck. No, wait: we got some deep-fried weeds. I'm stillin' the moonshine now.

Ico's comning with the crow.

One question: is there such a thing as a "Boolean operating system"? And if so, what is it? Does it taste anything like possum?

Er, all operating systems as currently designed are Boolean. Boolean logic is the logic of ones and zeroes. AND, OR, NOT, NAND. This logic is all coded into microscopic structures on microchips, and is also, at a higher level of abstraction, how computer programming works.

Good grief! Their post is entirely unreadable. Except for the sentence where they give you an award. What an hysterical overreaction. Vanity gallery indeed. Very vain. Stark raving mad and so very, very funny.

I am half done thinking up a testicular related cartoon and I will see if I can come up with anything relating to your hard earned award. The problem is that these ideas pop into my head and I can't move on to the next one until I finish the one I've been mulling over.

Wow. I suppose this is funny but I'm mostly horribly embarrassed and sad for these people. If they had even a fraction of integrity and professionalism that they do of ego, they might actually be able to make a positive contribution to the art world and wouldn't be so threatened by you.

There will be a talking pair of testicles with a shriveled penis attached to it and a talking vagina in the comic. I am an equal opportunity cartoonist. I won't mention testicles again in any future comments I post.

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Artists Choose Artists

Artist Annell Livingston writes about my work for the new blog, Vasari 21, founded by Ann Landi. Click pic for info and a link

Recent Solo: "Silk Road"

"Joanne Mattera: The Silk Road Series" was at Kenise Barnes Fine Art in Larchmont, New York, May-July. Some paintings are available for viewing at the gallery. Click pic for gallery info

Recent: August Geometry

More than just a summer show. Au-gust: adjective, respected and impressive. At the Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta. Click pic for info

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I'm having a great year of exhibitions and catalogs. This volume, published by Space Gallery, Denver, on the occasion of the exhibition, "Pattern: Geometric|Organic," is viewable online and available for sale as a hard-copy volume. Click pic for exhibition info and a link to the catalog. That's my "Chromatic Geometry 29" on the cover

James Panero Reviews Doppler Shift

Writing in The New Criterion, Panero calls Doppler Shift "a smart group show, " noting the work of "artists who interest me most these days." There's a nice shout out to Mary Birmingham, the curator; to Mel Prest, who originated the concept; and to me, among others. Click pic for the review

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"Textility," curated by Mary Birmingham and myself for the Visual Art Center of New Jersey, Summit (where Birmingham is the chief curator), looked at contemporary painting, sculpture and work on paper in which textile elements were referenced or employed. The exhibition is over, but you can see this exhibition on line. Click on the links below to read and see more.

Review of Textility

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Stephen Haller: Remembering Morandi

When he was a young man, the New York art dealer Stephen Haller had a brief but life-changing friendship with Giorgio Morandi, who was nearing the end of his days. Click pic below for story.

Haller holding a photograph of himself with Morandi in the early Sixties. Click pic for story

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My book, The Art of Encaustic Painting, was published by Watson-Guptill in 2001. It's the first commercially published book on contemporary encaustic. There are three sections: history, with images of the famed Greco-Egyptian Fayum portraits; a gallery of contemporary painting and sculpture (including the work of Jasper Johns, Kay WalkingStick, Heather Hutchison, Johannes Girardoni and myself), and technical information, including an interview with Michael Duffy, a conservator at the Museum of Modern Art.